“They are looking at raising an
awful lot from companies and high earners. The chance of getting £50bn
are pretty small. It seems to us is that if they were able to raise that
amount that would take tax burden in the UK to its highest level in 70
years."

John
O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:

"This
entire manifesto is based on the clearly absurd belief that businesses
can be repeatedly hammered with massive tax increases and crippled with
regulation without any wider impact on the economy, jobs and investment.

If even a handful of these disastrous ideas were implemented it would mean misery for the many and employment for the few.”

Ironically the coup de grace was delivered by that tired old union dinosaur, McCluskey of Unite, who doesn't think Labour has a cat's chance in hell of winning and said that holding on
to 200 seats - a loss of 29 seats and its worst result since 1935 -
would constitute “a successful campaign”.

Fair enough, Corbyn and co want to drag Britain backwards; why not back to the 1930's?

Despite it being leaked last week, the Labour manifesto will be officially launched today.

The oft repeated phrase "fully costed" has been used in the build up to the launch by party bigwigs. Except it isn't, McDonnell has admitted that the figures for nationalising water haven't been worked out yet!

Friday, 12 May 2017

Labour candidates are promising Labour voters they will remove Corbyn after the election in a desperate bid to win support on the doorstep, and are disowning the manifesto (even though it has yet to be officially published).

One Labour candidate described the manifesto as “childish”, as per the Telegraph:

“Those of us who are realistic about this know we can't stand on the
manifesto that has been produced by the party so we won't mention it on
leaflets and on the doorstep.”

One senior Labour candidate said:

"This is nothing more than
an expensive wishlist. Some of it may be harmless but the rest of it
reads like a 10 year old's letter to Santa Claus."

Another, fighting to hold onto a marginal seat, said:

"You could promise unicorns for everyone, none of this is going to happen.It's a ludicrous document, it won't serve Labour MPs well
on the doorstep and the public have largely stopped listening and taking
us seriously anyway.”

How can voters trust people who stand for a party for which they neither support the manifesto nor leader?

Monday, 8 May 2017

John McDonnell, Labour's shadow Chancellor, has come out in support of the theories of Karl Marx as espoused in Das Kapital.

Voters have a clear choice vote for economic policies that are relevant to the 21st century information age, or vote for policies designed for an era that has long since passed and that have inflicted economic misery on millions in the countries in which they were imposed.